Brazil: Cooks are seen at work in the kitchen at Mani, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mani was chosen as the fifth best restaurant in Latin America by international industry experts -- including representatives of the region's most influential restaurants.

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Colorado: A farm is surrounded by floodwaters near Crook, Colorado. The floods that ravaged Colorado this past week also took a toll on the state's agricultural communities.

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India: A fruit vendor counts rupee banknotes of various denominations at his stall in the old Delhi area of New Delhi, India. The Federal Reserves decision to postpone its rollback of U.S. stimulus offered Asian policy makers extra time to address domestic economic fragilities as the region copes with diminished capital inflows.

South Korea: A South Korean man eats a live octopus during an event to promote a local food festival in Seoul

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New York City: Guests are seated for dinner at Bryant Park during the annual Diner en Blanc, the worlds only viral culinary event, a chic secret pop-up style picnic imported from France. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the outdoor site -- always a landmark location -- is revealed at the last-minute. Guests are asked to dress entirely in elegant white, bring a picnic basket of food, fine china and silverware, white tablecloths, table and chairs.

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Vietnam: Farmers selling papaya fruits on the side of a road in the outskirts of Hanoi. Growing fruit trees is also an income source for farming famillies in some regions of Vietnam.

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North Carolina: Kevin Concannon, U.S. undersecretary of agriculture, chats with vendor Helen Wise at the State Farmers Market in Raleigh, N.C. The House has voted to cut nearly $4 billion a year from food stamps, a 5 percent reduction to the nation's main feeding program used by more than 1 in 7 Americans.

Texas: Rick Hales offers feed to a cow on his ranch in the early morning at his farm just outside Canyon, TX.

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Peru: A chef cooks "tacacho", a traditional jungle dish made with banana and pork, at the gastronomic fair of Mistura, the largest in Latin America. The fair showcases about 130 restaurants and expects to attract over half a million visitors in the ten days it will run, aiming to promote food as a tool for sustainable development, social inclusion and cultural identity. The Peruvian food industry could generate income for the country by about 7,000 million dollars in 2013, according to the Chamber of Commerce of Lima.

China: Chef Wang Xinglan (C) with other chefs who specialize in Confucius cuisine with some of her dishes at a restaurant in Jinan, Shandong Province. The fine-dining trend is a reflection of how the ruling Communist party which long saw the sage as a reactionary force, has now drafted him into its modern campaign to boost China's cultural standing and commerce. The philosopher lived from 551 to 479 BC, and his teachings of hierarchy, order and deference had deep resonance in the feudal societies of China and the region

France: The shadow of a claw crane is seen cast onto winter barley stored in the cargo hold of the barge 'Poseidon' during operations at Tellines Port, operated by the Marseille-Fos Port Authority in Port Saint Louis du Rhone, France. European Union average corn yields will be lower than expected last month after hot and dry weather in Italy during flowering in August hurt the grain, according to the bloc's crop-monitoring unit.

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India: Discarded rotis, or Indian bread, along the river bank as an Indian man cleans clothes in the polluted Sabarmati River in Ahmadabad, India. In a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization report released Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 by the Rome-based food agency, one-third of all food produced in the world gets wasted, amounting to an annual loss of $750 billion ($995 billion). The report said food waste hurts the environment by causing unnecessary carbon emissions, extra water consumption and the reduction of biodiversity as farming takes over more land. The most serious areas of waste are of cereals in Asia and meat in wealthy regions and Latin America.

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Virginia: Farmers Luke Miller, right, and Zachary Miller load carving pumpkins into a truck during a harvest at Miller Farms in Locust Grove, Virginia. Three-quarters of U.S. pumpkins are carved for decoration during the Oct. 31 Halloween festival. About one-quarter of the U.S. crop are light brown pumpkins without ribs that are canned or used in pie filling.

Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan members of the para Civil Defence Force engage in farming in the north-central region of Kebithigollewa. The CDF, a para military unit which was established to assist security forces during the height of the government's war against Tamil rebels is now being deployed, among other things, for farming after the end of the decades-old separatist war.

Philippines: A boy, one of the thousands affected by a stand-off between government forces and remnants of Muslim rebels carries his family's food rations at an evacuation center near the site of the stand-off, amidst raging firefighting between government troops and remnants of Muslim rebels in the city of Zamboanga on the southern island of Mindanao.

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Florida: Claire Garea, left, and Rhianna Dalton eat doughnuts at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts in Destin, Fla., on "International Talk Like a Pirate Day," Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. The restaurant gave away a dozen doughnuts to anyone who showed up dressed like a pirate and a single doughnut to anyone who talked like a pirate.

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An Afghan farmer works on his farm on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif. Only about 15 percent of Afghanistan's land, mostly in scattered valleys, is suitable for farming with about 6 percent of the land actually cultivated with wheat being the most important crop.

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